The award-winning Foxfire Magazine was started in 1966 by an English teacher at a North Georgia high school as a project to motivate his students.
Over the years since, students at the school have used the magazine, and a subsequent series of books, to document the people and culture of Southern Appalachia through stories, how-to articles, and oral history.
The following recollection is from “this is the way I was raised up,” by Mrs. Marvin Watts of Rabun County, Georgia. It appeared in one of the earliest issues of Foxfire.
Her account was reproduced in the magazine exactly as she submitted it in longhand.
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we usto have corn Shukings to get our corn shucked every body in the neighborhood come and my mother cooked a big dinner for the crowd seames as every body was happie to it sure was good back in them days we lived in a log house it was prettry hard to keep warm by an open fire place but we never was Sick back then we had a Spring to cary our watter from and my dad had to take his Shovel and ditch out a way through the snow for us to get to the Spring
One Xmas Santa Clause gave us three or four sticks of candie and a ornge he put it in our Stocking and we was as pleased as if he had give us a box full of candy
we lived one a hill out of site of the road and we was toaled the was a car coming through that day it was a teamodel ford tom mitchel was driving it and we sit one the hill all day to get to see it we haden never saw a car that was our firston
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